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...Just like somebody likes to remember poetry, I like math, so I like to remember pi,” said Rezny, an applied math concentrator who has practised reciting pi for six years and is a three-time winner of the department’s pi-recitation contest...

Author: By Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Department Celebrates Transcendental Ratio | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

While Yajun Zhou only recited pi to its 200th digit, he did it in 10 different languages...

Author: By Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Department Celebrates Transcendental Ratio | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

After fluently reciting pi in Chinese and English, Zhou slowed down as he enumerated 20 digits in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spain, Thai, and Turkish...

Author: By Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Department Celebrates Transcendental Ratio | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...master of ceremonies, Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, and Petschek Professor of Mathematics Clifford Taubes were on hand to check the recitations with their pi charts...

Author: By Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Department Celebrates Transcendental Ratio | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Pi in my mind is an image of digits,” said Zhou, a third-year graduate student in chemistry. “It’s neutral of languages...

Author: By Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Department Celebrates Transcendental Ratio | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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